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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1000021385 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'&gt;&lt;figure class='gallery-item'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;div class='gallery-icon '&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;a href='http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/uncategorized\\/dirty-dozen-jamie-anderson\\/attachment\\/06_JamieA_Christy\\/'&gt;\\/snow\\/content\\/images\\/v21n5\\/m\\/06_JamieA_Christy.jpg&lt;\\/a&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;\\nJamie Anderson was born in 1990, do the math-she&amp;#8217;s seventeen. But she&amp;#8217;s never thought of her young age as a disadvantage; in fact she never thought much of it at all-not when she was competing in the X Games at age thirteen, or at age fifteen winning bronze (the youngest medalist ever), or last season when she won X Games Slopestyle gold, took first place at the Abominable Snow Jam, second at the Roxy Chicken Jam, and filmed a full part with Runway. But let&amp;#8217;s face it, not only are all these stats impressive, but she&amp;#8217;s also managed traveling the world, handling all of her sponsorship obligations, and balancing school work. &lt;P&gt;The middle child in a &amp;#8220;huge&amp;#8221; family of eight kids, Jamie&amp;#8217;s made real sacrifices to get where she&amp;#8217;s at, she says, &amp;#8220;Sometimes I get really homesick because I feel like my little sisters are growing up so fast and I&amp;#8217;m like, &amp;#8216;Shoot this sucks.&amp;#8217; But it&amp;#8217;s such an awesome opportunity that I don&amp;#8217;t want to miss out on anything. If I wasn&amp;#8217;t doing this, I&amp;#8217;d wish I was.&amp;#8221; And she&amp;#8217;s giving it 110 percent all the way around.-A.F.&lt;P&gt;Birthdate: 09\\/13\\/1990&lt;P&gt;Hometown: South Lake Tahoe, California&lt;P&gt;Sponsors: Billabong, Salomon, Electric, DVS, Grenade, Vitamin Water, Sierra-at-Tahoe&lt;P&gt;How did you make it to where you are now?&lt;br \\/&gt;I started snowboarding at Sierra-at-Tahoe for fun when I was nine because my sisters did it. Then we all started doing the USASA contests and then one thing led to another, and now I&amp;#8217;m here doing bigger contests and doing better in a lot of them. &lt;P&gt;Who influences you?&lt;br \\/&gt;I have a lot of influences, when I was growing up my favorite snowboarder was Tara Dakides. I had her poster on my wall-I thought she was frickin&amp;#8217; rad. And then Danny Kass and Travis Rice, those are two of my biggest influences-all-over riders. Ones who are good at everything influence me.&lt;P&gt;What scares you?&lt;br \\/&gt;Injuries. I get kind of scared to mess up my knees and ankles. I ride my bike a lot. Also, it&amp;#8217;s super scary flying overseas. I&amp;#8217;m like, maybe if we crash, there&amp;#8217;s still a stupid chance that I&amp;#8217;ll live and I&amp;#8217;ll find an island. &lt;P&gt;What&amp;#8217;s more important-contests or filming?&lt;br \\/&gt;I think you have to do a little bit of both, but in the beginning it&amp;#8217;s definitely good to get recognized by doing contests. Contests are really good because you can win money right off the bat and it&amp;#8217;s fun to compete and ride with all your friends. But filming is so rewarding at the end of the year once you get to watch the movie.&lt;P&gt;I got so stoked watching my part-it really comes together and you&amp;#8217;re like, &amp;#8216;Woah, that&amp;#8217;s crazy. My whole season!&amp;#8217; I want to film more, for sure. I also want to do contests while I&amp;#8217;m young, then once I&amp;#8217;m over it I can film and ride powder. Really, once I&amp;#8217;m out of school it&amp;#8217;ll be easier to film and do contests. &lt;P&gt;What has snowboarding taught you?&lt;br \\/&gt;It&amp;#8217;s taught me to travel! No, it&amp;#8217;s taught me a lot. I&amp;#8217;ve learned so much from snowboarding-I&amp;#8217;m so stoked. I mean, it&amp;#8217;s such a part of my life. If I wasn&amp;#8217;t doing this, I&amp;#8217;d just be like every average Joe, just at school every day, hanging out, going to stupid high school parties, but instead I get to go see the world, learn, meet new people, it&amp;#8217;s frickin&amp;#8217; awesome. I&amp;#8217;m so stoked I get to be a part of it and do it for a little while.&lt;P&gt;What is the job part of your job?&lt;br \\/&gt;Ha, I remember when we were all in New Zealand this summer and we were all so tired, and we had to get up at 6:30 in the morning for the Open, and we were like, &amp;#8216;Okay this sucks-this is the job part of our job.&amp;#8217; Every few weeks we have to get up at seven o&amp;#8217;clock, but we&amp;#8217;re so lucky we don&amp;#8217;t have to do it every single day. And obviously photo shoots and catalog stuff for your sponsors is a job.&lt;P&gt;What&amp;#8217;s next for you in snowboarding?&lt;br \\/&gt;I want to definitely start riding pipe more. I&amp;#8217;ve always liked it, but I never ride it enough to learn stuff in it. So this season I&amp;#8217;m going to get good at pipe and start doing more pipe contests because I have fun in it. I just come unnerved because I kind of suck, but when I dedicate a loot of time to it and learn some new maneuvers &amp;#8230; &lt;P&gt;I also want to film a new video part. Hopefully film with a guy crew someday-that&amp;#8217;d be pretty cool. I have to make some goals &amp;#8230; I had a goal of going to the X Games and winning it, so I need to make a new goal. I think it&amp;#8217;d be pretty sweet to go to the Olympics-if it happens, that&amp;#8217;d be cool. It&amp;#8217;d definitely be cool to be an Olympian.&lt;P&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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